ELON MUSK AND TWITTER/X
Twitter / X was once the world’s most important source of breaking news and discussion. It was a playground for silliness and fun, too. It was a place where you could stay on top of your favourite celebrity, sportsperson or musician’s latest thoughts. It was also addictive knowing that most of your friends and colleagues would see your own post as soon as it was made, and immediately following that, the engagement as a new conversation was started. It even allowed you to participate in debates, often with famous and important people.
It is no longer any of those things. And, that’s a crying shame considering how rapid its downfall has been. Engagement has fallen through the floor, thus removing any personal or commercial incentive to post. Bots run amok, and you can no longer trust what you read. Moderation has become virtually non-existent, and the site is now heavily polluted with hate speech, with extreme political and social viewpoints being boosted into visibility that’s impossible to ignore. And, it’s all seemingly by design. The great tragedy is that one man, Elon Musk, has the power to cook up a version of global discussion that suits his own agenda and ever-surprising beliefs, and depressingly, for his own notoriety and ego, too. Sadly, he is wielding that power. Almost every day we see his posts unavoidably pinned to the top of the feed, endorsing hate speech, ridiculing those who dare criticise him, and empowering an undeniably one-sided viewpoint. Musk is now, at best, petty and vindictive, at worst – a barrier to free speech, fair elections and open discussion of critical issues.
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, Samsung 980//990 Pro SSD failures
FINALISTS: Elon Musk and Twitter/X, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, Starfield, Mark Zuckerberg / Threads, Google Play Store (Epic monopoly case loss), Alphacool Apex Stealth, Samsung 980//990 Pro SSD failures (bad firmware), Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, Apple walled garden, ChatGPT CEO kerfuffle.
“The great tragedy is that one man, Elon Musk, has the power to cook up a version of global discussion that suits his own agenda and ever-surprising beliefs.”